Biography

Mr. Ladi Balogun was born on 12 April 1972. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of East Anglia, UK and an MBA from Harvard Business School, US. He has over 20 years' experience in commercial and investment banking in Europe, the US and Africa.

Mr. Balogun began his banking career in 1993 at Morgan Grenfell & Co Limited, where he worked in the areas of risk management and corporate finance (debt origination). He was responsible for managing the bank's trading and investment positions in debt instruments in Latin America and Eastern Europe, and also part of a team that structured numerous complex debt deals in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Asian subcontinent. Subsequently, he worked at Citibank in New York before returning to Nigeria as an Executive Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive in 1996.

He has worked in various areas of the Bank, including Treasury, Corporate Banking and Investment Banking. He was appointed an Executive Director in charge of the Institutional Banking Group (IBG) in 1997.

In 2000, he was made Executive Director in charge of Strategy and Business Development, and in 2001 he rose to the position of the Bank's Deputy Managing Director and was subsequently appointed Managing Director of First City Monument Bank Plc (now First City Monument Bank

Limited).

Mr. Ladi Balogun became the Group Chief Executive of FCMB Group Plc effective 14 March 2017.